From a78e66ff0209568214f5d8b8e35e4bf2033724ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 06:06:43 +0000
Subject: Add a note about yield requiring a __future__ directive.

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 Doc/ref/ref6.tex | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

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diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref6.tex b/Doc/ref/ref6.tex
index 1f1486bac7..3089b1af38 100644
--- a/Doc/ref/ref6.tex
+++ b/Doc/ref/ref6.tex
@@ -482,6 +482,16 @@ difficulty is that there's no guarantee the generator will ever be
 resumed, hence no guarantee that the \keyword{finally} block will ever
 get executed.
 
+\note{In Python 2.2, the \keyword{yield} statement is only allowed
+when the \code{generators} feature has been enabled.  It will always
+be enabled in Python 2.3.  This \code{__future__} import statment can
+be used to enable the feature:}
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+from __future__ import generators
+\end{verbatim}
+
+
 \begin{seealso}
   \seepep{0255}{Simple Generators}
          {The proposal for adding generators and the \keyword{yield}
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